WP-Optimize helps you to:

Make space: When you edit a post or page on your website, WordPress automatically saves the new revision to the database. If you edit things a few times (and particularly if the post is long), your database soon gets clogged up with old revisions that just sit there, taking up valuable space. WP-Optimize removes these unnecessary post revisions, freeing up valuable Megabytes of data and increasing speed and efficiency. It also cleans up your comments table, removing all the spam and un-approved comments that have built up with a single click.

Take control: WP-Optimize reports on exactly which of your database tables have overhead and wasted space, giving you the insight, control and power to keep your website neat, fast and efficient.

Keep it clean: Once enabled, WP-Optimize can run an automatic clean-up on a schedule, keeping a selected number of weeks’ data, according to your specification.

When you use this plugin for the first time or just updated to major version, make a backup of your database (we recommend UpdraftPlus). Though none of the queries used are dangerous, it is always the best practice to make a database backup before altering your database.

How this could help you?

The tables in MySQL (the database that WordPress uses) will, over time, become inefficient as data is added, removed, moved around. Asking MySQL to optimize its tables every now and again will keep your site running as fast as possible. It won’t happen by itself.

Every-time you save a new post or pages, WordPress creates a revision of that post or page. If you edit a post 6 times you might have 5 copy of that post as revisions. This quickly adds lots of rarely-used data to your database tables, making them unnecessarily bloated, and slower to access.

Similar to the scenario described above, there might be thousands of spam and un-approved comments in your comments table, WP-Optimize can clean and remove those in a single click.

WP-Optimize reports which database tables have overhead and wasted spaces also it allows you to shrink and get rid of those wasted spaces.

Automatically cleans database every week and respects the “Keeps selected number of weeks data” option.

WP-Optimize Premium

Our free version of WP-Optimize is great, but we also have a more powerful Premium version with extra features that offer the ultimate in freedom and flexibility:

Multisite Support: extends database optimisations so they function for multiple WordPress sites at a time. If you manage more than one website, you will need WP-Optimize Premium.

Flexibility and Control: gives you the power to optimize select individual tables or a particular combination of tables on one or more WordPress websites, rather than having to optimize all database tables.

Sophisticated Scheduling: offers a wide range of options for scheduling automatic optimization. Specify an exact time and run clean-ups daily, weekly, fortnightly or monthly and perform any number of aditional one off optimizations.

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Installatie

There are 3 different ways to install WP-Optimize, as with any other wordpress.org plugin.

Using the WordPress dashboard

Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard

Search for ‘WP-Optimize’

Click ‘Install Now’

Activate the plugin on the Plugin dashboard

Uploading in WordPress Dashboard

Download the latest version of this plugin from https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-optimize/

Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard

Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area

Select the zip file (from step 1.) from your computer

Click ‘Install Now’

Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

Using FTP

Download the latest version of this plugin from https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-optimize/

Unzip the zip file, which will extract the wp-optimize directory to your computer

Upload the wp-optimize directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory in your web space

Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

FAQ

Is optimizing my database safe?

Yes; optimizing does not involve any “tricks” or poking around in dangerous ways. It involves running routine clean-up operations using well-defined, common MySQL commands. Nevertheless, we always recommend backups, which cover every possibility; not just database malfunctions, but hackers, human errors, etc. We recommend UpdraftPlus.

What savings can I expect to make?

This is a “how long is string?” sort of question. It depends completely on your site – how big it is, how many users interact on it, how long it has been running, and when you last optimised it. However, the savings and speed-ups can be substantial; it is always worth making sure that your database is optimized.

How do I get support?

In het support forum, hier: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-optimize/

WP-Optimize does not make large savings on my database

This is rare; it’s probably because you’re with a shared web hosting company that doesn’t allow scripts to run an optimize command via SQL statements (SQL “OPTIMIZE” instruction). Please consult your web hosting company on this matter.

Is the plugin tried and tested?

Yes – WP-Optimize is WordPress’s #1 most-installed optimization plugin, with over 500,000 users and a pedigree going back over 7 years.

Does WP-Optimize support InnoDB tables?

WP-Optimize will disable some features if it detects InnoDB tables. Optimization of the database tables on-disk is not available, but other clean up features would work.

Can you help me restore my database?

I’m afraid that this is not possible. Please ensure that you make a backup of your entire database before using WP-Optimize for the first time, and when you upgrade to a major new version of it. We recommend UpdraftPlus.

Are there any bugs in this plugin?

The plugin is an ongoing work; that means that it is impossible to rule out unforeseen situations and bugs. So I would recommend you to test it out on your local system or make a backup of your database (just to be extra careful).

How do I stop transient options from coming back automatically each time I clear them?

When WordPress uses a particular transient, that specific transient is re-created automatically. So, it’s normaly for ones which are in active use to gradually re-appear. The best way to keep things optimal is to clear the transient options on a scheduled basis. For example, WordPress may create 50 transient option in a week. If you schedule WP-Optimize to clear these options on a weekly basis, you’ll have far fewer building up.

The table size shows wrong / Not optimizing

Please check your database for corrupted tables. That can happen, usually your web hosting company can run the repair command on the db.

Beoordelingen

This plugin is not developed skillfully. It will wipe out valuable things from your website even logo, menu, footer, other scripts...etc. After a week hard work I had designed my footer it wiped all those. I had designed my menu, it flushed all those. It also flushed adsense ad code from the site which took a long to place on the website at right position. And many more things... These are things which I have come to know but there might be other things which have not come under my consideration yet.
More over keep in mind that don't depend on back ups stored in your database as it will remove all these from your database. You won't have any option left other than redesigning all flushed elements on your website. I have lost but you Beware...
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TWEAK: The lines showing information on how many spam/trashed posts and comments existed were incomplete

2.0.1 – 12/Dec/2016

OWNERSHIP: WP-Optimize is now under the leadership of Team UpdraftPlus – https://updraftplus.com. A big thank you to Ruhani (who remains on-board) for his leadership of WP-Optimize until this point! Layout, branding and links have been altered to reflect this change.

Ability to keep last X weeks of data, any junk data before that period will be deleted – this option affects both Auto and Manual process. Appreciate time and help from Mikel King (http://mikelking.com/) about this matter.

1.0.1

Removed auto cleanup of trackbacks or pingbacks.. it’s better for people to do it manually.